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How old are you and what are your interests? Most women my age seem to want the opposite of every element of that. I find in my travels that the women I meet with a similar lifestyle are usually either retired or not yet established in careers. I do meet some who are a bit similar in my age category, mostly traveling nurses, but they are fairly few and far between. I say I was stubborn because I was not flexible or willing to change my life trajectoryOh to accommodate theirs.
It felt like my goals were second to theirs cause their careers were more established. I actually dated a traveler too.
He basically felt that his schedule was more important than my own cause he was much further ahead than I was. My last point is especially what? I would be content with a situation in which that pragmatically turned out to be the case. I was agreeing that that was my experience as well. It makes sense though that an older guy would want something more traditional and conventional as far as gender roles went.
Nothing wrong with that either. Your general tone in this whole discussion has been very negative on age difference relationships and the way that you couched things made it seem like you were condemning me. My mother would laugh in your face at that comment.
As would my father. They were not equals. She was on top. There was never any ambiguity to that. In the absolutely ideal vision of things, my wife would be in a management role and I would be the laborer, which is exactly how it was for my parents and I suspect my apparently quite happy and successful maternal grandparents.
You and I seem to be the same in our career orientation. You mean a kid? Yeah this is big. Women in their 20s seem to be in less of a hurry and not have as much baggage IME, this dynamic can take a hard turn after a few years. Often the 20somethings think the 30somethings look great at first Long term potential is hard to predict.
What was my service? Or temporarily feeding said old guys ego? Make sure that fitness and health are intrinsically important to to him. If this somehow works out when you are 34 he'll be 44, and when you are 44 and possibly peaking sexually he'll be This is a serious age gap when it comes to not only sex but simply energy and ability to engage in life. Sorry if this upsets some people who feel the need to downvote but I'm older and this is a reality. You folks think this isn't a factor you are in for a rude awakening later.
You make a great point. Make sure he is healthy, and I would add that he has a high degree of openness to experience. One of my friends 29 is married to a guy in his 50s. In terms of fitness and his interests he's a disc jockey on the side, among other things , he likely acts and feels "younger" than many guys her age who are becoming unhealthy and boring.
It's not uncommon, from what I know. From 30 to 50 women often become much more sexually confident, and perimenopause in one's 40's can cause a spike in libido. Basically as a woman you shouldn't expect to want less sex in your 40's, although of course that varies across individuals. Hey, my ex is 60 and he still does first ascents in Alaska.
It's all such a damn crap shoot! But bad health due to bad habits is a death knell. He's also probably unwilling to put up with the games, bullshit or deception that 20ish year old guys are too inexperienced to recognize or too insecure to care about. Stay in the present.
What appears to be common is a dynamic where the older partner can easily control the other because of differences in life experiences and maturity. Saturday Night is a big success. Nothing is stopping you. Show us your rainbow ponytail to prove it! Mar 10, 7. Jan 6, Written and researched by Dale Markowitz.
The age gaps cause things to go off the rails when you compare childhoods or try to bond over things you experienced while growing up because they're probably going to be much different. Focus on the commonalities you have with them right now. It's funny you say that, but I've never found this to be an issue. I have dated 23 year olds who love s music way more than I do.
A 22 year old I met on Tinder was debating me about which Elvis period was better I said I liked mid to late s, and she said early Elvis I'm more likely to go to a contemporary concert for example, I'm seeing AJR in April than many of the somethings I have dated. And, when there are differences, like when I mention growing up in the s, they'll either be jealous, or call me "an old man," but mean nothing negative by that.
Pop culture is kind of superficial though, and nobody is ever tied to a specific time period. I've met younger people with older taste in music than mine because they like what their parents exposed them to. I don't really mean that stuff.
Should a 22 year old women date a 52 year old man? Would a year-old woman in India date/marry a year-old man? Is it okay for a year-old male to marry a year-old girl?. I met a guy that is 35 and I am 25, just out of a relationship. Is it worth even going forward with getting to know him? Ten years is a big gap.
Couples can expose each other to new things no matter the age. Maybe I just have different hang-ups, but even when I've gone on dates with women closer to my age, how they were impacted by the economy or dial-up changing to high speed never came up.
In terms of day-to-day importance, I care more about the music someone listens to and how they act versus any of that. I've never found a woman in her 20s to be ignorant of things like dial up or thinking it's odd that I grew up without internet, but maybe that's just that I date ones who are intelligent. Hence my advice to OP to "stay in the moment. I think it's depressing you're implying music is somehow superficial. I find that the women I date, even ones very capable of intelligently discussing the recession as I am , are much more concerned about music. I regularly date and have dated women in their 20s and early 30s , so this is just my experience.
Maybe your experience is different, but "mundane" things like music seem to matter. So what's your ultimate point then, that pop-culture is the most important thing you care about bonding with someone with? Or that you've compared pasts outside of music with someone much younger and never had a jarring disconnect? Hey, you do you. Nothing is stopping you. My original comment was basically that despite the expectation there would be a disconnect, I haven't really experienced that.
Music was just an example, because my experience has been that far from a disconnect, many women in their mids like 80s and 90s pop culture far more than I do they talk about "Friends" like it was the best show ever That's fine, and my experiences are different. I can't talk with someone more than years younger for very long because our interpretations of events even current events are much different due to being shaped by the culture we experienced growing up.
I'm on a generation cusp and my experiences are largely Gen-X. Click here to see why this is necessary. And what about a disconnect in emotional intelligence? Or do you find you're on the same level as 20 something females? Is that why pop culture and music are the primary focus of many of your comments?